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  • The currency is only one aspect and a quite recent aspect. Many other aspects of sovereignty are ceded as a condition of joining. However, the pros outweigh the cons.

    The point of the increased cooperation is that everyone is better off, with less risk of war and better protections. The EU sets many minimum standards for goods, services, interoperability and budgets, legislation, courts etc that countries cannot override.

    Death to the US is reductive and inflammatory.







  • It, of course affects pricing. If they pay $5 to apple, you pay $5 more. It’s just like Trump’s tariffs. The end user pays. Sure, the market encourages keeping prices down to attract customers, but if everyone pays a toll, you can’t compete below that.

    Now the companies can. Just like you don’t care about companies paying each other, companies don’t care where they can cut costs. Making their product cheaper, and therefore more attractive to increase sales is good for them. In this case it just happens to be good for consumers too. They may not pass on that hypothetical $5 but if they pass on $4, we’re still better off. Apple is worse off.

    I wonder how long before services are targeted for tariffs in response to Trump. It may be that prices for apps and games go back up immediately.








  • Yes, as the libs (named for monetary policy not social policy, so conservative) shifted right, labor has too. They have also adopted a lot of the same policies, so as not to be wedged. However abandoning their position on key human rights issues makes them unpalatable to many on the left.

    It’s decidedly odd that the policies that are their downfall are the ones that are copies of Trump’s. Anf going on polling, the poicies that seems to be tripping up Trump on immigration are the same as those adopted by both parties here. While the tariffs are awful policy for America, they don’t affect Australia as much as other countries, yet they get all the headlines.

    I hope that other countries starting to lean right get a rude awakening from how these populist policies play out. Cutting jobs for government efficiency doesn’t work if you just slash left and right.